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    Thread: Using a Japanese iPhone 4 in the UK
Post: Using a Japanese iPhone 4 in the UK

I think Japan uses a CDMA network, but the UK uses GSM. So you need to know if you can put a GSM sim in a CDMA phone... Call SoftBank and ask them about this and if they will unlock it. There's a pro...
torida General discussion 19 10,842 2012-03-23, 6:43 am
    Thread: Learning a Romance language (Spanish) -- Japanese experience helpful?
Post: Learning a Romance language (Spanish) -- Japanese ...

Cool Spanish and Japanese — The two languages I love most (great choice ;)! Try Michel Thomas, probably available on iTunes?? He does other languages too but they're not all great, however the Spanish...
torida Off topic 18 7,024 2011-01-13, 7:51 pm
    Thread: YouTube Series: Using Dramas To Improve Your Japanese
Post: YouTube Series: Using Dramas To Improve Your Japan...

Nukemarine you ROCK!!! Great job!
torida Learning resources 12 5,369 2010-07-10, 6:45 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Nukemarine Wrote:Perhaps try it again? hmmmmm, I just tried on a different machine and it does work. Must be other pc... no js blocked or anything, tried both firefox and ie too. Thanks for checking!...
torida The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-06-05, 12:19 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Nuke, the download that "Core 2k6k Vocabulary Audio" links to in the OP doesn't seem to work... I've tried it in a couple of different browsers, the link below it works fine. If you get chance to chec...
torida The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-06-05, 10:19 am
    Thread: Revealing the Ancient Chinese Secret of Sticky Rice Mortar
Post: Revealing the Ancient Chinese Secret of Sticky Ric...

"Sticky Rice Mortar" makes a great alternative to Heisig's "grains of rice" variation on the rice primitive. That one always got me caught out so I changed it to "rice paper" for some stories... but t...
torida Off topic 4 983 2010-06-01, 4:13 am
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

vileru Wrote:@Blahah How do the system resources of an iPhone 3G hold up to multi-tasking? I've just been using a jailbroken first generation iPhone with proSwitcher for multitasking and it works GRE...
torida Learning resources 401 86,886 2010-05-29, 7:38 am
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

Added some votes... Drawing pad is a top request from me :) Great job resolve!
torida Learning resources 401 86,886 2010-05-25, 11:15 am
    Thread: Where does you nickname come from?
Post: Where does you nickname come from?

http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/1941 :)
torida Off topic 66 10,378 2010-05-22, 7:52 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

--- COMPLETE NOOB GUIDE TO USING ANKI WITH NUKEMARINE'S DECKS --- Thought this might be a handy step by step for complete noobs to Anki who came to this thread without knowing how to use it (like me!...
torida The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-04-26, 12:26 pm
    Thread: Starting to get discouraged...please help?
Post: Starting to get discouraged...please help?

Seriously, all good advice above. Especially aphasiac's! And Angeldust's...
torida Remembering the Kanji 13 4,122 2010-04-25, 6:36 am
    Thread: Starting to get discouraged...please help?
Post: Starting to get discouraged...please help?

Courage wolf helped me... [Image: http://i45.tinypic.com/6p2bn8.jpg]
torida Remembering the Kanji 13 4,122 2010-04-25, 6:33 am
    Thread: Do you know where the banks get their money? The Money Masters.
Post: Do you know where the banks get their money? The M...

Good read: http://mises.org/Books/mysteryofbanking.pdf
torida Off topic 52 9,284 2010-04-24, 4:42 pm
    Thread: How to write faster
Post: How to write faster

Click 'Kana' top right of that page ;)
torida Learning resources 18 7,737 2010-04-16, 6:48 pm
    Thread: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application.
Post: Reviewing the Kanji iPhone application.

ファブリス Wrote:- "Kanji Practice Shodou" > kanji drawing screen calligraphy style, with paperweight at the top of the screen. This shodou setup is the idea behind the screen, to give a traditional cal...
torida General discussion 76 29,475 2010-04-14, 12:46 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Got it! Thanks everyone!
torida The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-04-12, 6:53 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Ok, firstly FANTASTIC JOB NUKEMARINE, THIS IS AWESOME!! Now I'm totally new to anki and these decks but I think I've got this moving... I've no need for the kana & kanji, done them. So I'm start...
torida The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-04-11, 9:45 pm
    Thread: Better sleep with F.lux
Post: Better sleep with F.lux

Blahah Wrote:Sounds like fun, and I've noticed my eyes burning quite alot recently. My sleep is pretty good since I started using earplugs at night and a sleep cycle tracking alarm clock (thanks iPhon...
torida Off topic 47 19,438 2010-04-11, 5:15 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I actually started again around 1100... Lots here recommend against it but I flew through all the ones I knew hitting 'easy' and I really had them down solid after that. I found it really helped to bu...
torida Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2010-04-10, 9:47 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Haha that was meant to bigup the kanji not my ego! I'll pm you the imdb ;)
torida Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2010-04-10, 9:26 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

やった!!!!!!! Finished, finally! 2 years, 4 months, 10 days.... Took a break to hit a few other life goals over the course of that but out of all of them, this feels BEST!!!! Thanks everybody for all t...
torida Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2010-04-10, 7:16 pm
    Thread: Basic English that I learned today.
Post: Basic English that I learned today.

I don't have a dishwasher :( Do people with dishwashers leave the dishes to drip dry or do you have to dry them with a tea-towel before putting them away?
torida Off topic 45 7,039 2010-03-17, 9:29 am
    Thread: [Games] Name your favorite enemy!
Post: [Games] Name your favorite enemy!

I second Sephiroth and Goombas for the reasons above (I had precisely 1 hp left when I beat Sephiroth, I thought it was all over and then, well it was! :) very uniquely memorable moment, but not by bo...
torida Off topic 25 3,614 2010-02-07, 9:21 pm
    Thread: [Games] Name your favorite enemy!
Post: [Games] Name your favorite enemy!

I'd say any from MGS too. A clever mechanic was Psycho Mantis reading the saved games on your memory card -- great idea. I like enemies with a back story that's connected to the hero.
torida Off topic 25 3,614 2010-02-07, 9:35 am
    Thread: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese
Post: Your Very First Day of Learning Japanese

Back on topic: I mentioned in another thread that I'd listened to Michel Thomas' Japanese -- and how I wish I'd had this when I started. Maybe you could try this approach? If you've already heard on...
torida General discussion 98 13,962 2010-01-14, 9:31 pm
    Thread: Using this site with Edge on the iPhone
Post: Using this site with Edge on the iPhone

Bit of a late reply, but if it's still useful... I use an iPhone on Edge all the time. When you open the review page it'll take a few seconds to load initially, but cards then cache in the background...
torida Learning resources 2 720 2010-01-10, 11:21 am
    Thread: People reporting the stories..?
Post: People reporting the stories..?

mezbup Wrote:I sometimes reported if it was blindingly obvious a primitive had been mistaken for another one... That's what I use it for. And (aside from objectionable content) if I go to use a story ...
torida Remembering the Kanji 23 3,768 2009-12-29, 7:28 pm
    Thread: Best of 2009
Post: Best of 2009

In true "wish I had these when I started out" form, I found that Michel Thomas does Japanese courses. His 'method' has the i+1 and SRS down great, coupled with a clever 'student-in-the-middle' trick t...
torida General discussion 15 2,081 2009-12-24, 8:47 pm
    Thread: Trouble with IME
Post: Trouble with IME

Some programs don't display text the same using JP Direct Input. I switch between English / JP using Alt+Shift too, but nest0r has just solved the prob for you — Alt+tilde (~) is the magic key combo y...
torida General discussion 13 5,751 2009-12-12, 9:25 pm
    Thread: The Dreaded "my hdd died" Post.
Post: The Dreaded "my hdd died" Post.

spinrite, not free but it works >> http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
torida General discussion 11 1,387 2009-10-16, 12:27 pm